Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Youtube (Outlet research)- Emma Murphy

  • Youtube is a video sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos. It was created in 2005.
  • The company uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user- generated contenet, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video bloggin and short original video. Media corporations including CBS, BBC, VEVO and other organisations off material via the site, as part of  the Youtube partnership programme.
  • Videos that are considered to be partly offensive content are available only to regustered users 18 or older.
  • Before the launch in 2005, there were few easy methods available for ordinary computer to post and watch videos online. The wide range of topics shown by Youtube has turned video sharing into one of the most important parts of internet culture.
  • Youtbe has been criticised for failing to ensure uploaded videos comply with the laws of copyright. Despite the advice on the website  there are still many unauthorized clips such as music videos featured on the website.
  • Youtube is known to be one of the main websites to feature music videos that can be searched for by the touch of a button.
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Questions for the band- Emma Murphy

  • How do you see yourselves as a band?

  • What would you say you're style is in relation to music, the way you look, how you perform?

  • What is your band history? Eg. how long you've been together, how did the band come about.

  • Do you perform regularly, if so where? 

  • Is there certain jobs within the band such as songwriter, or do you all combine skills?
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Research on Music outlet, The market - Amy Kong

Being in the 20th century different range of music are all over the media, music can be in any form of media such as Films, tv adverts, drama, tv soap opera etc. These are one type of music outlet, but the main music outlet is mostly focused on the CD market. 

In the UK, These products are mainly sold in large media outlet shops and other superstores. For example, HMV, Sainsbury, Asda and Tesco.  HMV is the British global entertainment retail chain and it's the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom. It has also been developed further into different international countries. Such as Australia, Japan, India, Hong Kong and USA. HMV stores stock a range of products from Audio, Books, Blu-ray Discs, CDs, Computer software and hardware, DVDs, and Video games.


Albums sales and market value
The following table shows album sales and market value in the world in the 1990s–2000s.

#
Country
Album Sales Share
Share of World Market Value
1
USA
37–40%
30–35%
2
Japan
9–12%
16–19%
3
UK
7–9%
6.4–9.1%
4
Germany
7–8%
6.4–5.3%
5
France
4.5–5.5%
5.4–6.3%
6
Canada
2.6–3.3%
1.9–2.8%
7
Australia
1.5–1.8%
1.5–2.0%
8
Brazil
2.0–3.8%
1.1–3.1%
9
Italy
1.7–2.0%
1.5–2.0%
10
Spain
1.7–2.3%
1.4–1.8%
11
Netherlands
1.2–1.8%
1.3–1.8%
12
Mexico
2.1–4.6%
0.8–1.8%
13
Belgium
0.7–0.8%
0.8–1.2%
14
Switzerland
0.75–0.9%
0.8–1.1%
15
Austria
0.5–0.7%
0.8–1.0%
17
Russia
2.0–2.9%
0.5–1.4%
18
Taiwan
0.9–1.6%
0.5–1.1%
19
Argentina
0.5–0.7%
0.5–1.0%
20
Denmark
0.45–0.65%
0.5–0.8%



Singles sales
Physical single sales in the world in the 1990s–2000s and digital single sales in 2005.

#
Country
Physical Sales Share
Digital Sales Share in 2005

EU
34–50%
13.2%
1
UK
26–32%
1.7%
2
Japan
4–25%
85%
3
USA
14.5–16%
6.3%
4
Germany
9–12%
5%
5
France
4–12.5%
1.9%
6
Australia
1.8–4.6%
0.48%
7
Netherlands
1.3–1.7%
< 0.2%
8
Belgium
0.8-1.8%
< 0.2%
9
Sweden
0.6-0.96%
< 0.2%
10
Switzerland
0.5-0.92%
< 0.2%
11
Austria
0.58-0.82%
< 0.2%
12
Italy
0.3-1.0%
< 0.2%
13
Spain
0.3-0.7%
< 0.2%
14
Norway
0.3-0.47%
< 0.2%
15
Ireland
0.2-0.5%
< 0.2%
16
Canada
0.1-0.6%
< 0.2%
17
Portugal
0.01-1.0%
< 0.2%
18
Republic of Korea
0.02-0.45%
< 0.1%
19
New Zealand
0.19-0.29%
< 0.1%
20
Denmark
0.10-0.25%
< 0.1%



Recorded music retail sales
Interim physical retail sales in 2005 - all figures in millions.
Approximately 21% of the gross CD revenue numbers in 2003 can be attributed to used CD sales growing to approximately 27% in 2007 (the growth is attributed to increasing on-line sales of used sales by outlets such as Amazon.com, the growth of used music media is expected to continue to grow as the cost of digital downloads continues to rise.)

COUNTRY
UNITS
VALUE
CHANGE
Singles
CD
DVD
Total Units
$US
Local Currency
Units
Value
1
USA
14.7
300.5
11.6
326.8
4783.2
4783.2
−5.70%
−5.30%
2
Japan
28.5
93.7
8.5
113.5
2258.2
239759
−6.90%
−9.20%
3
UK
24.3
66.8
2.9
74.8
1248.5
666.7
−1.70%
−4.00%
4
Germany
8.5
58.7
4.4
71
887.7
689.7
−7.70%
−5.80%
5
France
11.5
47.3
4.5
56.9
861.1
669.1
7.50%
−2.70%
6
Italy
0.5
14.7
0.7
17
278
216
−8.40%
−12.30%
7
Canada
0.1
20.8
1.5
22.3
262.9
325
0.70%
−4.60%
8
Australia
3.6
14.5
1.5
17.2
259.6
335.9
−22.90%
−11.80%
9
India
–
10.9
–
55.3
239.6
11500
−19.20%
−2.40%
10
Spain
1
17.5
1.1
19.1
231.6
180
−13.40%
−15.70%
11
Netherlands
1.2
8.7
1.9
11.1
190.3
147.9
−31.30%
−19.80%
12
Russia
–
25.5
0.1
42.7
187.9
5234.7
−9.40%
21.20%
13
Mexico
0.1
33.4
0.8
34.6
187.9
2082.3
44.00%
21.50%
14
Brazil
0.01
17.6
2.4
24
151.7
390.3
−20.40%
−16.50%
15
Austria
0.6
4.5
0.2
5
120.5
93.6
−1.50%
−9.60%
16
Switzerland **
0.8
7.1
0.2
7.8
115.8
139.2
n/a
n/a
17
Belgium
1.4
6.7
0.5
7.7
115.4
89.7
−13.80%
−8.90%
18
Norway
0.3
4.5
0.1
4.8
103.4
655.6
−19.70%
−10.40%
19
Sweden
0.6
6.6
0.2
7.2
98.5
701.1
−29.00%
−20.30%
20
Denmark
0.1
4
0.1
4.2
73.1
423.5
3.70%
−4.20%

Top 20
74.5
757.1
42.8
915.2
12378.7

−6.60%
−6.30%



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